Error in mapping German webcam to Somalian locations
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Some issues in the mapping of images. Looks like some German webcams showing winter snow have been linked to locations in Somalia. Somalia is a very hot country and snow has probably not fallen in these places in recorded history.!
Pics attached
Regards
Bodo!
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@bodoi Hello, thank you for letting us know. I have corrected the webcams near coast.
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@korina
Hi Korina
Windy is such a great resource :-) I am happy to be able to provide useful feedback.
Regards
Bodo
PS. during COVID-19 lockdown here in Australia I have shared Windy with other housebound colleagues and friends. The displays, including the webcams are such a nice way to "dream and escape" whilst otherwise confined. -
Hi Korina
I checked again today. There are still a lot of snowy webcams in the Somalia area. I have attached two examples taken today at 5.45UTC
Actually there are quite a few more "Autobahn" webcam pics along the Indian Ocean shores of Somalia. Please check this yourself. These are near Dharinbaar.
I don't know what is happening here.
Regards
Bodo
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@bodoi I have fixed those as well.
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Hi Korina
Sorry for this third email correspondence on the same topic. But there are still problems with German webcam's mapping to Somalia and the coast of Somalia
I have attached an image from today as I look at windy on an almost daily basis
Regards
Bodo
PS. I will not add to this post in future as I do not want to be a "pain". I hope you and other windy administrators will keep an eye on these "rogue" webcam sites. -
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@bodoi Thank you. We will check the source itself and correct all of them at once.
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Thanks Korina
Regards
Bodo -
@bodoi It seems this is a wider problem.
Here is one that looks more like a mediterranean seaside town than one in Arabia https://on.windy.com/617pt
And here is snow in Jemen: https://on.windy.com/617q5I just created a recent topic on mis-placed webcams.
Many of them are Angelcams but not all (https://community.windy.com/topic/18980/incorrect-webcam-locations)Could it be that someone is trying to spam Windy with incorrect webcams?
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@gbano said in Error in mapping German webcam to Somalian locations:
Hello, thank you for letting us know. Could you include these webcams in the main post? No one is spamming us, it is caused by a mistake in our import.
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@korina No problem.
I can add any incorrectly located webcam to my main post about it (as you can see there is a list already).
Thanks for clarifying this. I really thought this was someone trying to guerilla-promote his own cams.
